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To: EnderWiggins; Pelham
No, my friends. The "game of telephone" (which I first introduced regarding the Old Testament rather than the New) takes on a particularly unforgiving character regarding the Gospels and associated texts. The significant changes I speak of are not mere "copyist errors." They are the wholesale loss, rejection, suppression and attempt to eradicate a vast corpus of documents regarding a Church history that is not the linear, seamless transmission of authority via apostolic succession that Pauline Christianity would have us believe.

A thousand pardons if I am setting up yet another of my straw man, but this surely does sound like another conspiracy theory.

130 posted on 02/16/2010 2:46:08 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear

That is because you don’t seem to know what a conspiracy is.


132 posted on 02/16/2010 3:28:58 PM PST by EnderWiggins
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To: AndyTheBear

” this surely does sound like another conspiracy theory.”

It is. Your first clue should be Endless Wiggles appeal to “lost books”; if they are lost, then he certainly can’t know what’s in them any more than you do, and you can’t examine them to keep him honest. He can make them say whatever he wants. He pretends that these Lost Books support what he’s selling because it’s easier for him than dealing with a real text that he finds inconvenient.

It’s not hard to find copies of “suppressed texts” that aren’t included in the canon of scripture. Some, like the Didache or the Shepherd of Hermas, are considered valuable and worthy of study. They just aren’t canonical. Others are gnostic texts that were rejected as being heretical. The Gospel of Thomas would be an example.

Wiggle’s disparagement of Pauline Christianity is another clue that he’s wandering in the fever swamps of terra conspiratoria. Pauline Christianity is the major portion of the NT. His acceptance by the Apostles is documented by Luke, by the first Jerusalem council.

FF Bruce was one of the preeminent scholars of his time and his books are classics of apologetics. Wiggle’s condescension of Bruce simply marks him as a crank.


136 posted on 02/16/2010 8:34:15 PM PST by Pelham
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